Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1907 — President Roosevelt Clean the Way. [ARTICLE]

President Roosevelt Clean the Way.

At 8 o'clock Wednesday evening President Roosevelt issued a state ODeut from the White House iu Washington that sets at rest any possibility of his being the republi man nominee for President to suceeed himself. After embodying as the chief part of his balletic the statement lie made immediately following his ■Section, he states that he has not «n*l will not change bis mind in the decision then auuounced. This is -conclusive evidence that he will wot permit the use ot his name as a candidate, nor accept the nomina tion. The political field is uow cleared 4o all other candidates, principle of whom are William H. Taft, Sec re Wary of War; Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President; George B. Oortolyoa, Secretary of the Treasury; Joseph Can non. Speaker of the House; John B. Foraker, Senator from Ohio, Philander C. Sdoi, Senator from Pennsylvania; Wad Governor Hughes, of New York. With so.ue apprehension at first as to the full measure of ability of the Secretary of War, and doubting his diplomatic proportions, we have come to regard him as a very —arkable m»n. He has made good in every trust of his public hie and should republicans nominate him they can feel sure that he Drill malts the race with a ’clean veoord, and if he fs elected that he will be a Present of the people’s With our own state candidate,

Charles *». Fairbanks, removed, and oar original choice ot Elibu R H»t, oat ot the race, we would consider William H. Taft, as the bett iuau or the nomination.